Federal workers fight back as Trump dismantles their work: 'They've radicalized me'
While protests against Trump and Musk's cuts to the federal government are happening around the country, much of the organizing has been happening online.
President Donald Trump has long warned about an entrenched “deep state” of malevolent bureaucrats working to thwart his agenda. Many actual employees of the federal government have scoffed at this characterization, proud of the apolitical nature of the civil service and its ability to work across Republican and Democratic administrations.
This time might have been no different — if Trump and Elon Musk hadn’t come in and declared war on them.
While there were conflicts between Trump and civil servants in his first term, Trump may now be creating the broad resistance within the federal government he thought was there all along.
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Protests opposing the cuts and supporting laid-off workers have started popping up, but the real hotbed of organizing has been happening online, in Signal chats, on Facebook and in the popular “FedNews” channel on Reddit, where federal workers are sharing advice, talking about their experiences and encouraging opposition.
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